wrongdoer
Let an agent explain the concept of wrongdoer and its legal and moral senses, distinguish offenders, delinquents and other categories, relay how justice systems treat and label people who break laws, and use non-stigmatising language.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Concept What a wrongdoer is.
Definition
Definition and senses.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a wrongdoer, and how do moral, civil and criminal senses differ? definition
- Is the person proven to have done wrong, or merely accused? boundary
Categories
Legal categories.
Categories
Categories.
- How do offender, delinquent, tortfeasor and other categories differ in law? definition
- Which entry fits the specific category? action
Justice Justice systems.
Process
Process and rights.
Process
Process.
- How do justice systems determine wrongdoing, and what rights protect the accused? provenance
- Is the user asking about their own case, which needs a lawyer? boundary
Youth
Youth justice.
Youth
Youth.
- How do youth justice systems treat juvenile delinquency, with attribution? provenance
- Which entry fits juvenile justice? action
Society Labels and rehabilitation.
Language
Language and stigma.
Language
Language.
- What do guidelines say about non-stigmatising language for people who have offended? provenance
- Is the language used respectful? boundary
Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation.
Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation.
- What does research say about rehabilitation and desistance, with findings attributed? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Context History and ethics.
History
Historical categories.
History
History.
- What were barrators and other historical categories of wrongdoer? provenance
- Which entry fits legal history? action
Ethics
Moral wrongdoing.
Ethics
Ethics.
- How do ethicists treat moral wrongdoing, responsibility and blame, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- noun.person
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.PER
- Facets: substance
- social
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- offender, barrator, barrater, delinquent, juvenile delinquent, gonif, goniff, ganef, ganof, transgressor, malfeasant, no-show
What it is Filled
A person who transgresses moral or civil law, from someone who commits a minor wrong to an offender convicted of a crime, including terms such as delinquent and juvenile delinquent in youth justice, barrator for a historical vexatious litigant and slang such as gonif; the category is defined by the norm breached, whether moral, civil or criminal, and its labels carry legal and social consequences.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain the concept of wrongdoer and its legal and moral senses, distinguish offenders, delinquents and other categories, relay how justice systems treat and label people who break laws, and use non-stigmatising language.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Defined by transgression
- Moral, civil and criminal senses
- Legal labels with consequences
- Stigma concerns
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Label a named person a wrongdoer or offender without a conviction or reliable public record.
- Publish or compile records of people's offences beyond lawful and proportionate use.
- Treat spent convictions or juvenile records as if they still define the person.
- Use dehumanising language about people who have done wrong.
Only with a human decision
- Any decision that treats a person as an offender, such as in hiring, housing or screening.
- Disclosing a person's criminal history to others.
May
- Explain the term and how legal systems define offenders, delinquents and wrongdoers.
- Describe youth justice and rehabilitation approaches from official and research sources.
Moral aspects Filled
- Calling someone a wrongdoer can destroy their reputation and chances; due process protects the innocent.
- People who have done wrong keep their dignity and a right to rehabilitation.
Who is affected
- People accused or convicted
- Victims of wrongdoing
- Families of offenders
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns the label; courts and justice authorities answer for formal findings of wrongdoing.
Master systems
- Court and criminal records held by justice authorities
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-09851208-n - registry parent class
related
- person - by conduct
- offender - the criminal law term
- tortfeasor - the civil law term
- justice system - in legal cases
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.wrongdoer
- Open English WordNet: oewn-09657157-n
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Person who breaches moral or civil law
- Offender, delinquent and related terms
- A suspect is accused, not proven; a victim is harmed, not the wrongdoer
- No defining appearance; a category by conduct.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the concept and senses
- distinguish legal categories
- relay justice system frameworks
- use respectful language
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Labelling people without due process
- Stigmatising language
- Confusing moral and legal wrong
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Criminal and civil law defining wrongs
- Youth justice laws
- Rehabilitation and spent conviction rules
- Media guidelines on naming offenders
Context of use required Filled
- Not applicable; a category of person by conduct.
- offenders convicted of crimes
- juvenile delinquents in youth justice
- civil wrongdoers such as tortfeasors
- historical categories such as barrators
- moral wrongdoers outside law
- slang terms such as gonif
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-09657157-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: wrongdoer - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Should offender and delinquent be separate entries?
- How should justice frameworks be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases from law, history and slang; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-wrongdoer/spec.json